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Preferred term

OCEAN COASTAL UPWELLING INDEX  

Definition

  • Upwelling is an important process affecting plankton production off the Pacific Northwest. The CUI is a measure of the volume of water that upwells along the coast; it identifies the amount of offshore transport of surface waters due to geostrophic wind fields. Indices are in units of cubic meters per second along each 100 meters of coastline. Positive numbers indicate offshore transport for the upwelling index product and southward transport for the along-shore product. The CUI was developed by Dr. Andrew Bakun (Bakun 1973) and is provided by the Pacific Fisheries Environmental Lab (PFEL) of NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). (en)

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Change note

  • 2012-06-26 10:34:07.0 [gee-cee] Insert Concept add broader relation (OCEAN COASTAL UPWELLLING INDEX [74ad118c-2f18-40fb-a26e-092390f52c20,39809] - OCEAN UPWELLLING INDICES [7d3e2368-75ba-43b9-bdce-bba2ff8d3e2c,39807]);
  • 2012-06-26 10:34:50.0 [gee-cee] Insert Concept add narrower relation (OCEAN COASTAL UPWELLLING INDEX [74ad118c-2f18-40fb-a26e-092390f52c20,39809] - CUI [db8eb32d-2f86-40ab-82af-b615b5a30db9,39811]);
  • 2012-06-26 10:46:17.0 [gee-cee] update PrefLabel (OCEAN COASTAL UPWELLING INDEX);
  • 2012-07-05 13:10:31.0 [mpmorahan] insert Definition (id: null text: Upwelling is an important process affecting plankton production off the Pacific Northwest. The CUI is a measure of the volume of water that upwells along the coast; it identifies the amount of offshore transport of surface waters due to geostrophic wind fields. Indices are in units of cubic meters per second along each 100 meters of coastline. Positive numbers indicate offshore transport for the upwelling index product and southward transport for the along-shore product. The CUI was developed by Dr. Andrew Bakun (Bakun 1973) and is provided by the Pacific Fisheries Environmental Lab (PFEL) of NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). language code: en);
  • 2020-02-14 12:47:59.0 [tstevens] Remove Concepts delete narrower relation (null);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/74ad118c-2f18-40fb-a26e-092390f52c20

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